Happy Birthday Hubble!
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Hello space fans! Get ready to blast off into some exciting space news! The Hubble Space Telescope has just celebrated its 33rd birthday!
They captured an amazing image of a nearby stellar nursery.
The Hubble Space Telescope took a cool picture of a place called NGC 1333. It’s a bright cloud of gas and dust that’s really far away – 960 light-years!
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- The picture shows a dazzling display of stars surrounded by clouds of gas that are in the process of creating new stars.
- The Hubble has been in orbit for more than three decades!
- It has taken some of the most breathtaking images of space that we’ve ever seen.
- The universe is expanding faster than we thought – Hubble found that out the hard way when it measured the rate of expansion and blew our minds.
- Dark matter is real! – Hubble’s observations of distant galaxies revealed the presence of this mysterious substance that makes up most of the universe.
- Black holes are real, and they’re hungry – Hubble’s deep-space images have shown us the destructive power of these cosmic monsters.
- Galaxies love to collide – Hubble’s images of colliding galaxies have shown us the chaos and beauty of cosmic mergers.
- The universe is really, really old – Hubble’s observations of the most distant galaxies have helped us determine that the universe is around 13.8 billion years old.
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The Hubble team is thrilled to share that our video “How Hubble Images Are Made” is @NASA’s 2023 Webby-award-winning entry! 🎉
In addition, five other NASA projects received the honor of winning People’s Voice Awards: https://t.co/mGt5AwTEU1 pic.twitter.com/vMREbWSmGh
— Hubble (@NASAHubble) April 25, 2023
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